07-29-2016, 10:44 PM
We have a serious productivity problem with office workers and estimated that less than 50 percent of their time is spent on value-creating business activities. The younger workers are often off task, engaged on social media, on the internet, texting on phones and other unproductive activities. The Department of Labor must realize that if we are supposed to pay them overtime for work they should do during normal work this will make us have to focus on micromanaging employees and reducing compensation to reflect actual productivity of a mandated 40 hour or less workweek.
Dallas Fed on millennials and productivity - Business Insider
Robot bartenders mixing your cocktails, 360-degree views from an observational pod, and having the option of "skydiving" at sea. That's the experience promised by what Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. calls the world's smartest ship. The $1 billion Ovation of the Seas is joining the fight for market share in Asia, the world's fastest-growing cruise market, and looks to set itself apart with high-tech entertainment. Royal Caribbean took delivery of the ship in April , and it is on a 52-day voyage to its home port in the Chinese city of Tianjin.
Robot Bartenders and Virtual Skydiving: Smart Ship Cruises Into Asia - Bloomberg
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg provided a blueprint on Wednesday for what could turn into a major new business: search advertising. Facebook has had search capabilities on its social network for years, but the company has never really tried to turn it into a money-maker in the vein of Google's lucrative search-advertising business.
Mark Zuckerberg comments on making money from search - Business Insider
When it comes to living quarters for household staff, the upstairs/downstairs concept—popularized by a British TV show about an aristocratic family living in a London town house—is still very much the rule. But for today’s wealthiest families, downstairs may well mean a studio on a lower floor in a luxury apartment building. From New York to London to Dubai and Singapore, developers are offering small apartments on less desirable floors to high-end buyers, so their nannies, personal assistants and chefs have only a short elevator commute to the penthouse where they work.
‘Upstairs, downstairs’ redefined by staff quarters in today’s luxury condo towers - MarketWatch
Girls are ganging up on boys in a new cyberbullying craze called “roasting”, a digital safety expert has warned. The new bullying takes place via mobile apps such as WhatsApp, Instagram or Facebook, where girls pick on a boy and vent the most offensive abuse until the victim “completely cracks”.
Girls gang up on boys in new cyberbullying craze called 'roasting', expert warns